Support worker jobs in Hackney

Skills for Care recorded 325 filled community support and outreach posts in Hackney in 2024/25, out of 325 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 2.9% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Hackney.

The community support and outreach role is 5% of the 6,500 filled adult social care posts in Hackney. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Hackney, only 34.5% across all care roles in the area. New starters were 17.6% of community support and outreach posts in Hackney over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Hackney ranks 5th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 175 filled community support and outreach posts, against 325 in Hackney. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Hackney workforce, the same release records 3,200 filled care worker posts, 150 filled senior care worker posts and 100 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Hackney was £13.50 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £26,000 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Hackney only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Skills for Care withholds a turnover rate for the community support and outreach role in Hackney: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Hackney earn a median of £48,724 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Hackney at £28,600, £20,124 below it.